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Every person experiences different feelings towards God throughout life. The Fifteen Whispered Prayers enable a person to recite the prayer which is in most accordance with his present mood and feeling. The prayers start with 'repentance', as repentance is the first step towards a genuine communion
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in his book Al-Lum'at al-Dimashqiyya (The Damascene Glitter). Afterwards, most scholars who have written about the fifteen whispered prayers, considered them as a complementary section of the Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, while some others distinguished between the 54 supplications which makes the main
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the original fifty-four supplications "show an undeniable freshness and unity of theme and style, while the latter… add a certain orderliness and self-conscious artistry which may suggest the hand of an editor." Nevertheless, these prayers have come to the attention of
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My God, who can have tasted the sweetness of your love, then wanted another in place of You? Who can have become intimate with Your nearness, then sought removal from You?
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eparation from You has wrapped me in the clothing of my misery! My dreadful crimes have deadened my heart, so bring it to life by a repentance from You!
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body of Sahifa, and the added part which consists of the fifteen whispered prayers. According to
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Collection of fifteen prayers attributed to Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin
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against Yazid was mercilessly crushed. In a bloody encounter known as
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Mesbah-Yazdi, Mohammad-Taqi (1390). "Nasim-e Rahmat-e Elahi (2)".
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Quoted from The Whispered Prayer of the Repenters (first prayer)
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Quoted from the Whispered Prayer of the Desirous (fifth prayer)
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Quoted from the Whispered Prayer of the Lovers (ninth prayer)
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who has narrated them in the authority of some companions of
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